FlashList
High-performance list component for React Native with better memory management than FlatList.
Desktop and mobile apps npm MIT
Used in agent projects
26
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in desktop and mobile apps
#20 of 26
by use in those projects
Downloads
2.4M
npm, last 7 days, @shopify/flash-list
GitHub stars
7,245
last push Oct 1, 2026
How FlashList is used
FlashList is a dependency in 26 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #20 of 26 in desktop and mobile apps. The most used alternative there is React Native. Projects that use it most often also use Expo (100.0%), React Native (100.0%), React Native Reanimated (100.0%).
Often used with FlashList
| Expo | 100.0% of FlashList projects · 64.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| React Native | 100.0% of FlashList projects · 61.3× more than average |
| React Native Reanimated | 100.0% of FlashList projects · 98.4× more than average |
| react-native-safe-area-context | 100.0% of FlashList projects · 79.9× more than average |
| React Native Gesture Handler | 96.2% of FlashList projects · 95.4× more than average |
| react-native-screens | 96.2% of FlashList projects · 79.3× more than average |
| react-native-svg | 88.5% of FlashList projects · 110.1× more than average |
| Zustand | 73.1% of FlashList projects · 12.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list FlashList as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install @shopify/flash-list |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | React Native / Expo (15), TypeScript / JavaScript (7), Ruby (4) |
| Example projects | vega-org/vega-app, DHR-Store/Vega-Next, Shards-inc/Linguamate-ai-tutor, rohan-js/vega-stremio-addon, denniske/aoe2companion |
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